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Transistor Phonograph. A 7½-lb. portable phonograph that uses transistors instead of vacuum tubes will be put on sale by the Philco Corp. The phonograph will play for 150 hours on the power produced by four standard flashlight batteries costing 10? each v. the $6 batteries used in current portable phonographs. Price...
...biggest nuisance in watching television is having to get out of the chair to switch stations. Last week Zenith Radio Corp. brought out a new set equipped with electric eyes, permitting the viewer to sit as far away as 20 ft. and control it with a special pistol-grip flashlight. By shooting the beam at one slot alongside the screen, he can turn the set on (and off): by aiming at a second slot, he can switch stations; by aiming at a third slot, he can turn off the sound. Cost about $75 more than conventional TV sets...
...Robert the Robot, the Mechanical Man." Ideal also has a "radio"-equipped FBI car that broadcasts "Calling all cars . . ." Among electric trains, the newest is Toyland Products' train for three-to six-year-olds. It consists of a string of wooden cars, driven by three flashlight batteries, that go forward and back around an oval of fiber on which is printed an electric circuit. Price...
...beaned a lieutenant with a flashlight...
...when its roof had been set in place nearly 5,000 years ago. Next day the chiseling continued while El Malakh and a group of colleagues waited impatiently. At last the hole was big enough for him to peek inside. In the excitement he forgot to bring a flashlight, so he used a mirror (as the ancient Egyptians probably did) to shoot sunlight into the darkness...